Sticker batch #1 is here!

Here they are! Sticker#1 in my series, the incomparable Jinkx Monsoon! She recently launched a brand-new website, jinkxmonsoon.com, which I highly recommend checking out, as it's got some of her best pictures and videos.

Please be patient while we set up shop, but I will most definitely be updating on how to purchase these online when everything is ready.

Drag Portrait #3

"Jackie Daniels," gouache on 300 lb. coldpress arches, 6"x8"

 2012 © Amanda Russel

Drag Portrait #2 Complete!

"Sabel Scities," 6"x8", gouache on 300 lb. coldpress arches

© Amanda Russel, 2012

 

Coming soon will be some peeks of the bunny illustrations I am working on, as well as information about how the Jinkx Monsoon stickers can be purchased once they are made. The design and layout of the stickers is in its final stages. As soon as they are available for purchase, I will update both here and on my facebook fan page with information on where and how they can be purchased! 

Drag Portrait #1

"Jinkx Monsoon," 6"x8", gouache on 300 lb. coldpress paper

(Amanda Russel © 2012)

 

September and Twitter

It's September and many of my former PNCA classmates are back in school. It's strange to not be going back to school in September, for the first thing in my life.

I am working on several projects:

My good friend Risa has written a children's book, The Habits of Rabbits, and has hired me to illustrate it! I've been busy, drawing up a storm of rabbits.

I've also began an ambitious project of drag portraits, which I will be scanning and turning into stickers that will both promote me as an artist and the featured drag performers as performers. This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, since I have gotten to know a lot of awesome and unique drag performers over the years. All of this group of portraits feature people I know personally. I've got a list of ten or so to create, one by one. Stay tuned for opportunities to view the portraits (hoping to show them somewhere when they're a finished body of work!) and to buy the stickers as they are made.

Lastly, I have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon! Follow me: @todoeralindo

Bubble Child logo is finished!

I can't wait to post pictures of the finished cookbook- it's going to be amazing.

But for now, here is the finished logo :

(Amanda Russel © 2012, All Rights Reserved.)

Stay tuned for more information about the bunnies, as there will be many of them in my next commission project.

Summertime

Summertime is almost halfway through!

After graduation aftermath settled down, I was lucky enough to be able to take a two-week vacation to the family house in Santa Fe, NM, where I spent time drinking margaritas, relaxing, watching my grandmother pick apricots, and finishing up the Bubble Child book project! I'm very excited to see how the whole book comes together. It looks and reads fabulously as pages.

While I've been busily looking for an additional job, I am also continuing to pick up some freelancing gigs. On the horizon: collaborating with my friend Risa on a children's book she wrote. Stay tuned for more details.

Hint: there will be bunnies.